The Union County Sheriff’s Office reports the driver of a 1998 GMC pickup suffered suspected minor/non-incapacitating injuries during a single-vehicle accident at around 8:30-a.m., Monday. 15-year old Rachel Ann Boyer, of Kent, was traveling south on the High and Dry Road, when a deer ran out in front of her. Boyer, who was wearing her seat belt, swerved to miss the animal, and in the process lost control of the vehicle. The pickup rolled into the west ditch, and sustained $5,000 damage. The teen was transported by private vehicle to the hospital in Creston, to be checked-out.

And, Sheriff’s officials say a man from Afton, reported on Monday morning, that someone placed fraudulent charges on his checking account. The incident happened sometime last Saturday.

Officials with the City of Audubon have issued a Boil Water Advisory until further notice for the community. A water main break this morning has dropped water pressure levels resulting in the need for a Boil order to be put into place.

All water used for consumption should be boiled before use or you can choose to use bottled water. Showering and bathing is okay during a boil advisory but you need to be careful not to ingest water while doing so.

City of Audubon Officials will notify the public when the advisory has been lifted.

Check out the CDC’s Boil Water Advisory factsheet here: CDC-What-to-Do-During-a-Boil-Water-Advisory

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Audubon Police Chief Matt Starmer today (Wednesday), released a report on arrests. On Monday, 49 year old Matthew Dwight Williamson, of Audubon, was arrested for Child Endangerment and transported to the Audubon County Jail where he appeared before a magistrate. On June 6th and June 15th, 24 year old Alex Pleis, of Audubon, was arrested.  Both arrests were based on warrants from Cass County.  Pleis was arrested and released to Cass County authorities each time. And, on May 31st, 45-year old Danielle Delray Frasier of Audubon, was arrested for Gathering Where Controlled Substances Unlawfully Used and Interference With Official Acts.  She appeared later, before a magistrate.

Attention! A water main break in Audubon has forced the cancellation today of the Summer Lunch and Summer Food programs for K-4 students. They hope to have those programs available tomorrow. (6/20 – 7:46-a.m.)

Creston Police early this (Wednesday) morning, arrested 37-year old Briankeith A. Whitfield, of Creston, on numerous charges. Whitfield was taken into custody at around 1:30-a.m, at 603 W. Adams St., for Going Armed with Intent, Harassment in the 1st Degree, being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd or Subsequent offense, and for Possession of Paraphernalia. He was being held in the Union County Jail on $17,300 bond.

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Members of the Exira-EHK School Board will meet 6-p.m. today in the Conference Room in the Elk Horn building. On their agenda is discussion and/or action on: The Exira School playground equipment; Driver’s Ed Contracts; a P-Card Resolution authorizing issuance of individual procurement cards; prepayment of late June bills; Milk, bread and fuel bids; a transfer from the General Fund to Activity Fund, for the Yearbook account of negative balance at the end of June; approval of a New acceptable use policy for Technology during the 2018-19 school year; action on bus bids, and personnel matters.

The Board will also receive an update on construction projects.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines plans to resume ticketing Monday of speeding violators caught by an automated speed radar camera on a heavily traveled portion of Interstate 235. Citations haven’t been issued since April 26 last year, upon an order from the Polk County District Court. Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Muscatine appealed the court ruling. Those cities had sought the judicial review after the Iowa Transportation Department ordered some speed cameras turned off, saying the cameras didn’t make interstates safer.

This past April 27, however, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the department didn’t have authority over speed cameras, clearing the way for cities to employ them. The Des Moines Police Department said in a news release Tuesday that “a significant increase in speeding violations was noticed” after the ticketing halted.

Republican Congressman Steve King was an active tweeter, Tuesday, urging people to call congress and voice their opposition to bills that would provide what King calls “amnesty” to anyone who entered the U.S. illegally.  King tweeted out a link to an interview he did with T-M-Z about the separation of children from parents crossing illegally at the southern border. King told the T-M-Z cameraman there is “nothing cruel” about the way the children are being treated and they are not being held in cages. King has toured detention centers near the southern border before. The use of chain link fencing is needed, King has said, to separate the boys from the girls.

King said on Twitter that the only way to stop what he describes as a “flood of illegals” is for the U.S. to deport “substantially more…than the number of those who arrive seeking amnesty.”

(Radio Iowa)